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Monday, September 23, 2013

Close-Fitting Fingerless Gloves

Last week Rosalind reminded me that a friend of ours had a birthday coming up so I decided to make her a present. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of my project before wrapping it. Since our friend's favorite colors are pink and blue I was able to buy a skein of yarn with those colors in it and I started looking for patterns for fingerless gloves since its starting to get chilly out now and the only pattern that I found and that I liked was the pattern for close-fitting fingerless gloves. My mom said that they could easily be turned into mittens as well. You can find pictures that follow along with the pattern here, if you need to jog your memory in case you don't remember a step. There are a couple steps that I didn't use but that you can find on the website. Even though I don't have a picture of the finished product you can see what the yarn that I used looks like here.

you will need the following
supplies:

1 pair size 7 (4.5 mm) knitting needles. (Size
8 will also work)1 skein Worsted Weight yarn, any color.1
tapestry needleTo
start the first glove, grab one of your knitting needles and cast on
24 stitches if you have a smaller hand, or 28 stitches for an average
to large woman's hand/medium men's hand. Be sure to include the
slip knot as the first stitch, so that there are 24/28 and not 25/29
stitches.

**Knit
one stitch. Purl one stitch. Repeat from ** all the way across to
complete the row.

Repeat
Step 3 three more times.

Row
5 - Knit all the way across.Row
6 - Purl all the way across.

Rows 7-27: Repeat rows 5 and 6,
ending will a row of knit.

Row
28: Purl all the way across. At the end of the row, cast on 5
stitches.

Row
29: Knit
all the way across. At the end of the row, cast on 5 stitches
.

Row
30 - Purl all the way across.

Row
31 - Knit all the way across.

Row
32 - Purl all the way across.

Row
33 - Knit all the way across.

Row
34 - Cast off the first five stitches. Purl all the way across.

Row
35 - Cast off the first five stitches. Knit all the way across.

Row
36: Cast off one stitch. Purl all the way across.

Row
37: Cast off one stitch. Knit all the way across.

Row
38: Repeat Row 36.

Row
39: Repeat Row 37.

Row
40: Purl all the way across.Row 41: **Knit
one stitch. Purl one stitch. Repeat from ** all the way across to
complete the row.